STUC invests in young activists

The STUC voted to support investment and training in young activists. Not only are young people critical to the future of the trade union movement - but the trade union movement is critical for young people.

Following a statement on recruiting young people - “The future is now”, delegates backed a plan to encourage participation by young members as the best way to build their skills and help recruit others.

Speaking in the ‘Organising Young Workers’ debate, UNISON’s Derek Burns pointed out that organising young workers isn’t simply an act of solidarity. “It is vital for all of us that we organise young workers.

“The alternative is that - unorganised - they will form a pool of low paid employees on poor terms and conditions whose impact on the labour market will be to act as a drag on attempts by others to raise wage rates and conditions of employment.”

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